World of Our Fathers : The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction by Morris Dickstein -- Preface -- 1 Toward America -- 1 Origins -- The World of the Shtetl -- Ferment and Enlightenment -- The Start of Social Change -- The Prospect of America -- 2 Departure and Arrival -- Crossing into Europe -- The Lure of America -- From Border to Port -- The Ordeal of Steerage -- At Ellis Island -- A Work of Goodness -- "Hordes" of Aliens -- Open Door-and Closed -- The Jews Who Came -- 2 The East Side -- 3 The Early Years, 1881-1900 -- The First Shock -- "A Gray, Stone World" -- A New Tempo, a New Way -- Peddling and Sewing -- Going to the Land -- In the Tenements -- The Implacability of Gentleness -- A Chaos in Hebrew -- Dislocation and Pathology -- Voices of the Left -- What Migration Meant -- 4 Disorder and Early Progress -- An Early Combat -- New Tastes, New Styles -- Spreading Across the City -- An Experiment in Community -- The Failure of the Banks -- Beginnings of a Bourgeoisie -- What the Census Shows -- A Slow Improvement -- 5 Slum and Shop -- Working in the Shops -- Rising in the World -- Ways to Make a Living -- 6 The Way They Lived Then -- At the Heart of the Family -- Boarders, Desertions, Generational Conflict -- The Inner World of the Landsmanshaft -- Shul, Rabbi, and Cantor -- Versions of Belief -- From Heder to Secular School -- Dreamers of a Nation -- A Bit of Fun on the East Side -- Up into the Catskills -- Matchmakers, Weddings, Funerals -- To the Brim -- 7 The Restlessness of Learning -- "Americanizing" the Greenhorns -- A Visit to the Cafes -- A Passion for Lectures -- The Self-Educated Worker -- Fathers and Sons -- 8 Growing Up in the Ghetto -- Parents and Children -- Delinquents and Gangs -- Girls in the Ghetto -- Going to School -- Jewish Children, American Schools -- Immigrants and the Gary Plan -- City College: Toward a Higher Life.

9 Jewish Labor, Jewish Socialism -- Early Weaknesses -- The Girls and the Men -- The Triangle Shirt Fire -- The Jewish Working Class -- The Socialist Upsurge -- The Meaning of Jewish Socialism -- 10 Breakup of the Left -- Civil War in the Garment Center -- Dual Unions-and the Furriers -- A Network of Culture -- Recovery, Growth, Adaptation -- From Politics to Sentiment -- 11 Getting into American Politics -- Getting on with Tammany -- The Jews and the Irish -- Maneuvering Within the City -- Low Roads, High Roads -- 12 American Responses -- The Native Reformers -- Stage, Song, and Comic Strip -- From Henry Adams to Henry James -- Legal Rights, Social Rebuffs -- 3 The Culture of Yiddish -- 13 The Yiddish Word -- Sweatshop Writers -- Poets of Yiddishkeit -- The Rise of Di Yunge -- Three Yiddish Poets -- The Modernist Poets -- Literary Life on the East Side -- Yiddish Fiction in America -- After the Holocaust -- An Unyielding Voice -- 14 The Yiddish Theatre -- The Vital Hacks -- Time of the Players -- A Theatre of Festival -- Art and Trash -- An Art of Their Own -- 15 The Scholar-Intellectuals -- Where Should They Go? -- Dean of Critics -- A Gifted Voice -- A Disinterested Historian -- 16 The Yiddish Press -- Kindergarten and University -- A New Journalism -- Tell Me, Dear Editor -- Voice of Immigrant Socialism -- Other Papers, Other Voices -- The Time of the Day -- Writing to the End -- 4 Dispersion -- 17 Journeys Outward -- Entertainers and Popular Artists -- Painters and Sculptors -- The American-Jewish Novelists -- The New York Intellectuals -- 18 At Ease in America? -- The Suburbs: New Ways to Live -- Into the Public Realm -- The Holocaust and After -- Israel and the American Jews -- A Fear Beyond Escaping -- The Immigrant Survivors -- Epilogue: Questions upon Questions -- Image Gallery -- Reference Notes -- Glossary of Yiddish Terms.

Bibliographical Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.

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